Melinda Appleby | News & Journal

10 Jul Peregrine Comes to Roost

Posted at 19:27h in News by Melinda Appleby

The papers and journals of J. A. Baker, the author of the 1967 nature writing book The Peregrine, have been given to the University of Essex Albert Sloman Library and this archive was launched at a meeting this week to discuss Baker’s life and work.

01 Jul In Praise of the Dark

Posted at 14:09h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

The June solstice is behind us and the sun begins its slow withdrawal towards winter. The owls call again, reclaiming their hold on the dark. But it is never quite dark.

20 Apr Chiffchaff Choices

Posted at 09:11h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

The Chiffchaffs started calling at Easter, their two tone note tossed out into the March winds from the top of the ash trees.

07 Mar The Hungry Gap

Posted at 21:01h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

The yellowhammers are here again. One arrives most mornings around 6.30 but during the day numbers build up and fourteen have been here eating seed that we broadcast for them.

29 Feb Reflecting on Rivers

Posted at 20:55h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

I live on a small inconsequential Suffolk river, the Dove. I like the fact that it moves quietly and unobserved through the landscape, a channel hiding among field boundaries. It was not always so.

10 Feb The Fattening of the Buds

Posted at 17:23h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

I have been out collecting thoughts and looking for signs that the trees are at last breaking their winter slumber. In the Brecks you have to search for deciduous trees.